Sports success shouldn't cost academics at CSU

11:52 PM,
Apr. 11, 2012

Written by

Carl Patton

I just read the March 2 "by Jim Smith. Smith has certainly been a devoted supporter of the College of Business and CSU athletics. His contributions to both CSU and the Fort Collins community throughout the years are to be lauded.

However, I take issue with his parallels between the excellence in academic programs, mainly research and the arts, and his claim that CSU athletic programs have "languished in mediocrity."

He ignores the fact that CSU's excellence in research in the programs he lists, and many, many others, has little to do with state money. The research excellence he mentions comes ...